Gifted children

1. GIFTED CHILDREN

2.

• I strongly agree
• I agree
• I have no opinion
• I disagree
• I strongly disagree

3. 15 Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness

• Student’s use of language
• Quality of student’s questions
• Quality of examples, illustrations,
or elaborations that a student
uses in explaining something,
describing events, or telling
stories

4. 15 Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness

• Student’s use of
expressions and
reasoning
quantitative
quantitative
• Student’s ability to devise or adopt a
systematic strategy for solving
problems and to change the strategy
if it is not working

5. 15 Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness

• Special skills students exhibit that
are unusual for their age or grade
• Student’s innovative use of
common materials in or outside
of the classroom
• Student’s breadth of information

6. 15 Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness

• Student’s depth of information in
a particular area
• Student’s collections of materials
or hobbies
• Student’s
persistence
on
uncompleted tasks

7. 15 Student Characteristics of Potential Giftedness

• Extensiveness
of
student’s
exploratory behaviour
• Student’s criticalness of his or her
own performance
• Student’s
preferences
for
complexity, difficulty, and novelty
in tasks

8. Characteristics

• Learns more rapidly
• Stronger need to know (curious)
• Superior abstract thinking skills
• Superior communication skills
• Longer attention span
• Perceives
more
unusual
relationships

9. Characteristics

• Sees / creates patterns
• More intense interests
• More intellectually playful
• Better at sensing discrepancies
• Better retention of information
• More imaginative

10.

Bright Child
Knows the answer.
Is interested.
Is attentive.
Has good ideas.
Works hard.
Answers the questions.
Gifted Learner
Asks the questions.
Is highly curious.
Is mentally and
physically involved.
Has wild, silly ideas.
Plays around, yet tests
well.
Discusses in detail,
elaborates.

11.

Bright Child
Top group.
Listens with interest.
Gifted Learner
Learns with ease.
Beyond the group.
Shows strong feelings
and opinions.
Already knows.
6-8 repetitions for
mastery.
Understands ideas.
1-2 repetitions for
mastery.
Constructs abstractions.
Enjoys peers.
Prefers adults.

12.

Bright Child
Gifted Learner
Grasps the meaning.
Draws inferences.
Completes assignments. Initiates projects.
Is receptive.
Is intense.
Copies accurately.
Enjoys school.
Creates a new design.
Enjoys learning.
Absorbs information.
Manipulates
information.
Inventor.
Technician.

13.

Bright Child
Gifted Learner
Good memorizer.
Good guesser.
Enjoys straightforward, Thrives on complexity.
sequential presentation.
Is alert.
Is keenly observant.
Is pleased with own
learning.
Is highly self-critical.